Quote:Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth....
There were two types of flat earth; the square flat earth, as believed by the Egyptians and the round (circle) flat earth that the Babylonians believed in. The authors of the Bible contradicted themselves in that they portrayed the earth as a flat square and a round circle, not a ball or sphere. People may have been very ignorant about science in those days but they knew the difference between a ball and a circle. The authors clearly stated circle (chuwg), not ball (duwr) when describing the earth.
Daniel 4:10;
As I was looking,
I saw a tree of great height at the center of the earth;
The tree grew and became strong,
Reaching with its top to the sky
And visible to the earth's farthest bounds.
If the earth was a sphere there could not possibly be a tree in its center; it could if it was flat.
Quote:Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
According to NAB north is a synonym for firmament, a dome that rested on top of the earth. The passage would read "He stretches out the dome over the empty space." In other words the dome was not supported in the middle.
We see this word north in Isaiah 14:13
You thought in your mind,
I will scale the heavens;
I will set my throne high above the stars of God,
I will sit on the mountains where the gods meet
In the far recesses of the north
More then one god, I might add.
The Greeks and Hindus believed the earth rested on an object. The Greeks believed Atlas held up the earth. The Hindus believed it rested on the backs of four elephants who, in turn, rested on the back of a giant turtle that swam in a vast sea.
The authors of the Bible, or at least one of them, believed the flat earth rested on pillars but nothing else.
1 Samual 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Heaven, the dome or firmament, also rested on pillars.
Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
There are so many more passages that show the belief of a flat earth by the Hebrews who wrote the OT. History shows us that their neighbors also believed in the flat earth as well, a belief that was in existence before the Hebrews wrote their books.
